Baltimore Is Set to Offer an $8 Million Settlement to the Family of a Man Who Wrongly Served 17 Years

Baltimore’s spending board is poised to approve an $8 million settlement with the family of a man who was exonerated after serving 17 years in prison on a homicide charge.

The settlement, which is due to be approved Wednesday by the city’s Board of Estimates, would close out a lawsuit filed by the family of Malcolm J. Bryant. Bryant was convicted of killing 16-year-old Toni Bullock in 1998. His sentence was vacated in 2016 with the help of the Maryland Innocence Project after a court-ordered DNA test on the victim’s nail clippings revealed a partial DNA profile that did not match Bryant.